This is a series I cannot recommend enough' - C.E. 'Filled with action, adventure, magic, love, danger and hope. What they choose to do with the Scytale could change Urte forever. For Ramon, trapped behind enemy lines, it is one more obstacle in his desperate attempt to get his men safely home.Īnd while the armies of East and West clash in ever-more-bloody conflict, emperors, inquisitors and assassins hunt the Scytale of Corineus, the key to ultimate power, which is in the hands of the most unlikely guardians: failed mage Alaron and market-girl Ramita, pregnant widow of the world's greatest mage. For the Queen of Javon, it is a beacon as she seeks new ways to overthrow her usurper husband and reclaim the country for her brother. In the wake of a devastating battle, everything has changed: the East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and despair to Urte.įor Elena and Kazim, the victory is a call to arms against the renegade spymaster Gurvon Gyle. David Hair is the award-winning writer of two young adult fiction series, The Aotearoa andThe Return of Ravana (based on the Vedic epic The Ramayana).Mage s Blood, the first volume of a series called The Moontide Quartet, is Hair s first work of adult fantasy.In a starred review ofMage s Blood, Publisher s Weekly said, This multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a. 9781552543795 155254379X Winter Moon - MoontideThe Heart of the MoonBanshee Cries, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, C.
Martin and Robert Jordan.Įmperor Constant's crusade is teetering on the edge of disaster. The third in David Hair's epic Moontide Quartet, perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson, George R.R. 'A tale that encapsulates epic fantasy to its entirety' Fantasy Book Critic, The Year's Top Ten I